John McCain

After 105 days on the road, campaigning in 140 different cities, chores start to pile up, and so Sen. Tim Kaine had an appointment with a rake and a lot of leaves this weekend.

"Anne (Holton, his wife) said, 'Yeah, OK, I've got some yard work for you' .... We get a lot of leaves in Ginter Park," he said, referring to the Northside Richmond neighborhood where the couple raised their three children and where they still live.

He has other work piling up, too, back in Washington. After a hard-fought campaign as Hillary Clinton's running mate, with the key task of bringing a pointed critique of the man who ended up winning on Election Day, Kaine now returns to being...

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